2/11, 3/18, 4/24 Mixed Media Workshops with Alecia Miller
Join us as we welcome local artist Alecia Miller for 3 mixed media workshops! We’ll explore color, texture and composition using paint, collage, and mark making tools to create beautifully layered canvas paintings inspired by Alecia’s art.
2/11/25 ~ Lovebugs!
Participants will create highly decorated bugs on heart shaped panels. We'll use collage and paint to set the basics down and then add details with mark making and hand drawn patterns.
3/18/25 ~ Poetic Portraits (6-8pm)
Participants will create whimsical portraits while exploring collage, texture and mark making in this mixed media workshop. We'll do some loosening up and drawing while the initial collage dries, then dive into our paintings using acrylics and other water based media.
4/24/25 ~ Folk Art Flowers (6-8pm)
Participants will collage, paint, and play with texture to create vibrant backgrounds as a starting point. We'll then reveal folk and Mid-century modern inspired flowers and add embellishments to really make them pop.
Experience Level: Beginner to Advanced
Prerequisite: No prior experience required
Materials: All will be provided for you to create your mixed media canvas
Complimentary tea & coffee; BYOB is welcome
Ages high school through adulthood welcome; Under 18 requires a registered adult
Price Per Workshop: $60/per person
Join us as we welcome local artist Alecia Miller for 3 mixed media workshops! We’ll explore color, texture and composition using paint, collage, and mark making tools to create beautifully layered canvas paintings inspired by Alecia’s art.
2/11/25 ~ Lovebugs!
Participants will create highly decorated bugs on heart shaped panels. We'll use collage and paint to set the basics down and then add details with mark making and hand drawn patterns.
3/18/25 ~ Poetic Portraits (6-8pm)
Participants will create whimsical portraits while exploring collage, texture and mark making in this mixed media workshop. We'll do some loosening up and drawing while the initial collage dries, then dive into our paintings using acrylics and other water based media.
4/24/25 ~ Folk Art Flowers (6-8pm)
Participants will collage, paint, and play with texture to create vibrant backgrounds as a starting point. We'll then reveal folk and Mid-century modern inspired flowers and add embellishments to really make them pop.
Experience Level: Beginner to Advanced
Prerequisite: No prior experience required
Materials: All will be provided for you to create your mixed media canvas
Complimentary tea & coffee; BYOB is welcome
Ages high school through adulthood welcome; Under 18 requires a registered adult
Price Per Workshop: $60/per person
Join us as we welcome local artist Alecia Miller for 3 mixed media workshops! We’ll explore color, texture and composition using paint, collage, and mark making tools to create beautifully layered canvas paintings inspired by Alecia’s art.
2/11/25 ~ Lovebugs!
Participants will create highly decorated bugs on heart shaped panels. We'll use collage and paint to set the basics down and then add details with mark making and hand drawn patterns.
3/18/25 ~ Poetic Portraits (6-8pm)
Participants will create whimsical portraits while exploring collage, texture and mark making in this mixed media workshop. We'll do some loosening up and drawing while the initial collage dries, then dive into our paintings using acrylics and other water based media.
4/24/25 ~ Folk Art Flowers (6-8pm)
Participants will collage, paint, and play with texture to create vibrant backgrounds as a starting point. We'll then reveal folk and Mid-century modern inspired flowers and add embellishments to really make them pop.
Experience Level: Beginner to Advanced
Prerequisite: No prior experience required
Materials: All will be provided for you to create your mixed media canvas
Complimentary tea & coffee; BYOB is welcome
Ages high school through adulthood welcome; Under 18 requires a registered adult
Price Per Workshop: $60/per person
About Alecia
“For as long as I can remember, I have always been a creative person; expressing myself through drawing, writing, and other artistic endeavors. I graduated from Drexel University with a degree in Fashion Design, although I knew that was not the career path I really wanted to pursue. My creative journey led me to ceramics. I took many classes at Chester Springs Studio as well as continuing my formal education with the ceramics program at Kutztown University. From 2001 to 2005 I ran Nepenthe Pottery while we lived mid-state and had an onsite studio. My work was heavily influenced by forms found in nature, and the connection to the pieces that one receives when cradling a vessel in your hands. Over time, my work began to take on intricate and detailed patterned carving which added to this experience. When we moved back to eastern PA, the space for a ceramics studio was lost, and my focus shifted back to writing, drawing, and painting.
Creating mixed media artwork allows me to continue to play with textures in my pieces, and to build up layers of meanings and ideas as part of my creative process. My love of words is expressed through incorporating old book pages in the collage layers, expressly chosen for the stories they are from or the words they contain, giving new life to these forgotten tomes.
While I may have a specific plan in mind when I start a painting, as I build up the background layers I try to listen to the muse and shift or adjust as seems fit for the piece. There may be sections of the collaged background that are lost completely under layers of paint and sections of pattern that just evolve and speak to me to be saved. I recognize that this is reflective of life as we live it. Things that are key to shaping us get hidden away as we grow, but still make us who we are today. It is all part of the process as we emerge from the backgrounds into who we are meant to be.”